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Do you remember when I showed you how to make this plant/display post? I made another project at the same time but I never shared it with you. Why? Because it is for my front porch, which needs a major makeover. It’s been too hot to do the porch makeover, so I’m just going to go on and show you now.

My very nice niece gave me these closet doors. They were very heavy, and I thought that they were solid.

But when I cut into them, I found out they were indeed hollow core doors.

After cutting them on the table saw, I made a box. See the facing piece on the bottom right? That piece covers up the hollow area of the door.

Then I dry brushed a black over it, or was it brown? I’m sorry I can’t remember.

This is the pitiful porch that needs a makeover. It seriously needs painting, and I need a new front door, but not until I can teach this guy:

to not put his muddy feet on the door. Do you see that black bucket in the background? Over there by Louie’s water bowl and the hose. (and my fence flag) That black bucket holds the things I need for my fish pond. I have to keep the fish food snapped shut in this bucket to keep varmints (possums and raccoons) from running off with it. I also keep some latex gloves and a towel in there so that I can clean the pond pump. I keep the gloves closed up in an empty fish food can, because I always have had this fear that I will stick my hands into a pair of gloves and find a bug in my gloves.

See! It’s bad! Hopefully this fall when it cools off, I can manage to find the time to spruce up this area. On the left you see my longtime friend. 🙂 He’s been around about 2 years longer than I have. On the right you see the dreaded “poop bucket”.

I have these two wonderful creatures. I have to scoop the poop and I don’t like to walk all the way to the garbage can, AND, ewwww putting it in the garbage can would make it stink really bad. I scoop twice a day, and quickly open that gray bucket, throw in the bag of poop, and CLOSE it. You can see I tried to camouflage the bucket by painting it the same color as the porch/stone.

Problem solved! I intended to collect two NEW buckets before I did the photo shoot for this project, but it never happened. These buckets of kitty litter are very heavy. I’ve recently been buying a smaller jug that doesn’t weigh as much. Note the Gorilla tape over the broken seams of the buckets. After opening and closing them so many times, the “bend” gets weak. The Gorilla tape is working great to seal the lids.

Another reason I’ve never shared this project is this . . . I plan to make another one, that isn’t so long. I purposely made this large enough to fit three of those buckets in it. Since then I have decided it’s too big.

Even though it’s too big, it works like a charm. It allows me to store some other needed items, such as pond pump accessories and a pair of shears that I use a lot outside.

Now for another update: Do you remember this rustic sign I made out of privacy fence?

I so hoped that I would win (or even better, be selected to review and give away a Silhouette machine), but that didn’t happen.

So, one day I got tired of this sign just laying around. I got out some oops sample paint, and just went for it!

I think it just sort of goes with the whole rustic feel, don’t you? Well, that’s what I’m going with anyway. I used some jute to make a hanger.

Please disregard the dying vegetation. We haven’t had any rain for so long. And by the way, it was 98 degrees two days ago!

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ABOUT GAIL WILSON - A teacher at heart, Gail Wilson relishes the chance not to show off her projects, but to help others find their inner handywoman, step-by-step. Her blog, MyRepurposedLife.com, chronicles her scrap-saving adventures and has been featured on countless DIY magazines and websites, including Women’s Day, Design*Sponge and Apartment Therapy. She is a longtime influencer for both Homeright and Gorrilla Glue. With a tribe of more than 450,000 followers, Gail is inspiring a new generation of DIYers to pick up some tools and get to work.

I love looking around your world! That baby is adorable. I talking about the dog of course. I am not a cat person, but I don’t mind if you are.I linked back to your post yesterday…of course thanks to your post it popped up in a new window for anyone that clicked it. Thank you!

we started using the litter that is made from sawdust…so very light. the kitties loved it and so did my back. our litter box was in the basement, down a curved staircase and through the house…so i stored used litter too. the good thing about the sawdust litter is that it can be dumped outside on a flower garden or the like and recycled…not like regular litter that turns to gray mush. it naturally takes care of the ammonia so there is virtually no smell if cleaned on a regular basis as you are. it comes in pellet and loose form. i liked the loose better but the cats didn’t seem to have a preference. http://www.felinepine.com/

Goodness… you have so mannnnny projects going on haha,Plants are suffering over here too because of the crazy weather, one day its hot the next day its cool, infact I actually had an easter lilly bloom two weeks ago… it was the weirdest thing I have ever seen in my garden haha

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